Monthly Archives: March 2009

A long time ago there was this skinny young kid from Pittsburgh, and when he was at Westinghouse High School he was reading the New Yorker and learning French – an odd thing for a young, gay black man. And … Continue reading →

You remember your first new car – the one after the used junker that got you through the last years of college and was forever breaking down. It was the summer of 1969 and the new car was a shiny … Continue reading →

Les Jeux Sont Faits – Sartre, from the mid-forties – a dismal book about what you can do to make things better in this world. Good luck with that – the book is about how things in this life are … Continue reading →

For those of us born and raised in Pittsburgh, Saturday, March 28, 2009, was a dark day. The chaps from the University of Pittsburgh, after coming so far and rising so high, were eliminated from the national basketball tournament by … Continue reading →

Well, something is in the air. There’s the April 6 issue of Time and that cover story – this recession, or near depression, or whatever it is, will bring an end to the “spirit of excess” that began in the … Continue reading →

Is capitalism over? Who would ask such a thing? Given our slowly accelerating economic disintegration, and the attendant political firestorm regarding who is to blame for it all and who has the best ideas to fix things, the question hasn’t … Continue reading →

Multitasking – the ability to manage many tasks at once, and manage them well – is a prime skill you need in the modern world. If you’ve worked in a large corporation at even a modest level of authority you … Continue reading →

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